Update 11.2.17 released

[Andreas Raht]

This is an early notice, currently we have only the PC Windows version online. But we're working on the Mac and Linux updaters now.

11.2.17 fixes the following issues:

• 3 minor bugs on the baseball cards are fixed. Build #17 also contains the latest baseball card templates created by our beta tester BMW!
• Fixed the bug where changes made to PhotoFit (Facegen) pictures where not sticky and caused the picture to reload.
• The change beard/hair color/facial type/same picture functions are back in the picture menu now for fictional and for photofit/fg file pictures.
• When loading an existing league with 11.2.x for the first time, OOTP converts the player pictures from firstname_lastname.jpg/png to player_x.png. Build #17 will delete the old picture files while converting a league.
• The patcher installs the latest version of the text database (english.xml file). The file contains a timestamp to check its version.

Please download the update from here:

PC updater:
Mirror 1 -> http://www.ootpdevfiles.com/ootp/ootp11update.exe
Mirror 2 -> http://ootp.s3.amazonaws.com/ootp11/ootp11update.exe

As always, the update contains all previous updates.

[kckid4u]

Andreas, do we have to have installed 11.2.15 for this 11.2.17 to work, or is this one stand alone?

Thanks BTW for getting this out. Bravo to all you guys!

[Libid21]

Originally Posted by Andreas Raht

When loading an existing league with 11.2.x for the first time, OOTP converts the player pictures from firstname_lastname.jpg/png to player_x.png. Build #17 will delete the old picture files while converting a league.

Can someone tell me how to do this manually if you have already started a league with the previous patch?

[Andreas Raht]

Originally Posted by kckid4u

Andreas, do we have to have installed 11.2.15 for this 11.2.17 to work, or is this one stand alone?

You can install this without installing 11.2.15. The new update includes 11.2.15

Originally Posted by Libid21

Can someone tell me how to do this manually if you have already started a league with the previous patch?

You can just leave the pictures there. There's no neecd to delete them actually. If you want to save disk space you could manually delete them, but that's some work, depending on the league size... the problem is to prevent deleting team logos.

[Libid21]

Originally Posted by Andreas Raht

You can install this without installing 11.2.15. The new update includes 11.2.15


You can just leave the pictures there. There's no neecd to delete them actually. If you want to save disk space you could manually delete them, but that's some work, depending on the league size... the problem is to prevent deleting team logos.

Well I just started the league and haven't made any sims yet. It's a current MLB league with the all-in-one mod. If I delete the league, then download the patch, will it work for me after I re-install it then?

[Andreas Raht]

Originally Posted by Libid21

Well I just started the league and haven't made any sims yet. It's a current MLB league with the all-in-one mod. If I delete the league, then download the patch, will it work for me after I re-install it then?

Yes, that's what I would do. The all-in-one mod has surely a lot of images which are now in your /news/html/images folder and take away some disk space.

[BMW]

The 1974 Topps template has been updated as well:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...gher-only.html

[Libid21]

Originally Posted by Andreas Raht

Yes, that's what I would do. The all-in-one mod has surely a lot of images which are now in your /news/html/images folder and take away some disk space.

Alright. Thanks. Now all I have to do is wait until the patch comes out for Mac lol.

[HercMighty]

Originally Posted by BMW

The 1974 Topps template has been updated as well:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...gher-only.html

Doesn't the patch include this?

[BMW]

Originally Posted by HercMighty

Doesn't the patch include this?

No, it actually has a much-updated generic non-copyrighted template.

Sure, it's not a "real" card, but you can see the difference.

[hawaiiansky]

Originally Posted by Sweed

After patching I no longer have the ability to change ethnicity, hair color, beard, etc. The only options I have are..

New fictional
Import Photofit
Import Photo file
Auto reload
baseball card

Did something get broken here or did we intentionally lose some functionality or am I missing something?

This is still the case with my fictional leagues's picture options and has not been fixed despite new update. No beards. No ethnicity options.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by hawaiiansky

This is still the case with my fictional leagues's picture options and has not been fixed despite new update. No beards. No ethnicity options.

Check your version number on the top left as the menu screen completes. Does it say 11.2.17?

[TPinrose]

For leagues with both pc and mac users, are .15 and .17 compatible?

[Dargone]

Nice!

[hawaiiansky]

Originally Posted by RchW

Check your version number on the top left as the menu screen completes. Does it say 11.2.17?

Yeah, the version is the new one. Hmmm?

[Big Six]

I just patched to 11.2.17.

My current favorite league is a 2010 MLB quickstart that is now getting ready for the 2021 season. It has a mixture of veteran "real" players and a lot of younger players who are fictional. I used facegen for all the players' pictures, so they're all "fictional" pictures.

When I first patched the game, I was also missing the options for changing facial hair, ethnicity, etc.--even for fictional guys who broke in several years after the dynasty began.

I used this work-around, which DreamTeams described in another post:

"You can still add facial hair. After you import the fg file, go and change the team's uniform. Then go back to the player and all the options are there. Strange. "

All I did was change the stripes on the team's jersey, and shazzam! All the options appeared. Then I went back and undid the change, so the unis look the same.

Now I can add and take away beards all day long if I want. Yeah, it's a work-around, but it's a simple one.

I just noticed this only works for a fictional player. I just tried it for Rick Porcello, a "real" player with a fictional picture. Even after I tweaked Rick's Diamondbacks uni, I still don't have the options. All the completely fictional D-backs are changeable, however.

[hefalumps]

I haven't tried the .17 patch yet since I'm still at work, but with .15 I had been getting around this beard/ethnicity issue by going to that same uniform page and instead of just changing the uniform, I would click on the button to re-generate pictures for all team members (or something to that effect). It took a few seconds, and sometimes I would have to go to a player profile a couple of times before the new picture got picked up, but for every one I tried, the beard/ethnicity options were there - even for PhotoFit players. I was able to add a beard to Kirk Gibson because he looked naked without some facial hair.

I'll install .17 when I get home and see how things behave then. I was just getting used to the way .15 behaves, so hopefully .17 doesn't change the rules TOO too much. Hopefully just makes things simpler and more reliable. :-)

Oh, and I was one of the ones who went to my news\html\images folder and deleted all the firstname_lastname.jpg files that .15 converted to player_xxx.png files for me. As Andreas stated, it is not simple - because there are logos and web interface menu graphics, etc. that you have to make sure you DON'T delete. There's really no quick command to do it reliably - you basically just have to go in and delete them manually to make sure you only delete the unnecessary player photos and not something else.

[hawaiiansky]

Originally Posted by hefalumps

I haven't tried the .17 patch yet since I'm still at work, but with .15 I had been getting around this beard/ethnicity issue by going to that same uniform page and instead of just changing the uniform, I would click on the button to re-generate pictures for all team members (or something to that effect). It took a few seconds, and sometimes I would have to go to a player profile a couple of times before the new picture got picked up, but for every one I tried, the beard/ethnicity options were there - even for PhotoFit players. I was able to add a beard to Kirk Gibson because he looked naked without some facial hair.

When I did this the facegen pictures that I created still have no beard or ethnicity options. The list of beard and ethnicity options appears for the facegen pictures that the game creates! Huh?

[kckid4u]

So there are still problems with facegen with this patch? Anyone else seeing problems with facegen after the 1.11.17 patch?

It's hard to follow what's going on with the game since we began using the ticket method of reporting probelms.

[RandyTiger]

Originally Posted by hawaiiansky

When I did this the facegen pictures that I created still have no beard or ethnicity options. The list of beard and ethnicity options appears for the facegen pictures that the game creates! Huh?

They're showing up for both the real players and fictional FG's for me after applying the .17 patch, which wasn't the case for the .15 patch.

1. Have you tried running the patch again to make sure the changes DO occur?

2. Have you tried creating a new league, importing an existing real player facegen, then trying the options?